[rhn-users] Disappearing packages from the RPM database

[Musolino, Peter]

> I have had 2 systems running AS-3.0 lose large numbers of packages
> from the rpm database.  Our average system has somewhere between
> 700-900 rpms installed.
> Looking at these 2 systems, they only show as having 180 or so
> packages.
> The packages were not uninstalled.
> I tried removing /var/lib/rpm/__db*
> And then an rpmdb --rebuilddb as well as the same procedure with
> --initdb.
> This happened on one system where I upgraded from U2 to U3, and
> another system which was a straight U3 install.
> I have upgraded to the 4.2.3 rpm, but that did not resolve this issue.
> No rpm installations were interrupted mid-install; these are for the
> most part, stock packages with the exception of packages necessary to
> install minedefang, but another identical system did not have its
> database become corrupted and it has the same packages.
> 
> Anything else I can try, other than a reinstall or an rpm -I --justdb
> for every single package I should have, but don't?
> 
> Thanks in Advance
> 
> Peter Musolino
> 
> 




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